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status of women. ah, i melissa chan. thanks for joining us. un high commissioner for human rights. michelle bachelorette is in bangladesh where she has been meeting with government officials and members of civil society. her itinerary includes a stop at reentry, refugee camps and cox's bazaar. the influx of over a 1000000 people over the years has posed a long standing challenge for the country. this small house is home to some a bag homeowner family of 12. there are hinders fled myanmar and found shelter and cox's bazaar in the world's largest refugee camp. on more when we came to bangladesh because we were persecuted here, at least we have a roof over our heads. i'm thankful for that. my family is here too,
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and they even give us food about all the un human rights commissioner michelle bash left is on a 4 day fact finding mission. she's focusing on the face of the over 1000000 ringer have been forced to flee their native. myanmar in the muslim minority had been persecuted bears since the 1970s. many rights organizations call their treatment genocide. hundreds of ro hang villages have been destroyed. the inhabitants murdered. hundreds of persons have fled to neighboring bangladesh where they live in camps close to the border. the authorities are planning to settle, many of them on a remote island. some observers say they're a hanger or the most persecuted, at least respected minority in the world. is not the condition that any human being should have. i mean, it is
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a gross and the man must state, as violet did not only international law, they have committed a genocidal with selma. begum, like many ringer still hopes when they soon should be able to go home. we have the wi fi til islam. joining us from binah, aristotle, sticking to the topic of a hinge, a refugee camps in bangladesh. i wonder will bachelor's visit, really have an impact? and what can she realistically do to help in the 1st of a visit by you in the right, steve to a bunger, this michelle bottle. it arrived in taco on sunday and already held meetings with several ministers and activists on issues related to human rights violations. she is visiting the ruin graffiti camps in cost budget. today, that visit is taking place just a few days before the 5th anniversary of the massive ruin guy exodus from me and
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michael bunger this, it was sparked by your military crack gun by me and martin, who is to the you and called it text book example of ethnic cleansing, bungler, this has sort bachelor's help to the patriot ruin yet refuses to myanmar. and she has reportedly issue to the u. s. continued efforts to realize the safe and voluntary return of dirty food is to me on more. and as you mentioned, her multi day trip is not exclusively about their hinges. what else is she looking at and what our local human rights group saying? that's a very good question. another, she activists have said that they believe to michelle, bottle it on gross violations, including external judicial feelings and disappearances. under prime minister, she casino hundreds of bunger. this is have been forcibly disappeared, tortured and killed. since the government led by hard flaws took off in 2009
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according to the human rights watch. therefore, 9 human rights organizations ought to populate to publicly call for an immediate and too serious abuses. in bunger this, however, the government denies delegate sons of disappearances and extended the shell killings with one minister saying that some of those who went missing in fact flit . one of this activist also raised a strong concerns about bunger this digital security laws enacted in 2018 with international rights group, say, have been used to silence descent call, freedom of expression, and target journalists. now again, going back to that same question, then what is the power of the un high commissioner for human rights in order to effect change? especially when you have a situation where the government is denying these disappearances the right steve as if it is spar full mandate on anything related to human rights
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within the un system. but this expects that boss alerts visit will play an active role in the week and say if you pick to your son of the ruling at the fuses, staying in the muslim majority country, she can take extra initiative and proactive actions in this regard. meanwhile, taco bells to rights activists have ought to bottle it to impress up on the government the need for an independent commission to investigate. it started to sell killings and enforce disappearances should hold a news conference in tucker at that end of our mission tomorrow. where she is expected to publicly comment on the issues this debate among others government as well as human rights activists. it will be very interesting to see whether the government does establish an independent commission or a federal islam. thank you so much for joining us. thank you.
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in india, prime minister in your random modi raised eyebrows in a speech, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the countries founding. he called on indians to fight massage any condemning, rape and other criminal and aggressive male behavior. and also pushed for more gender equality. the comments by themselves would not be so controversial if it weren't for the fact that many people consider moti himself. a massage dentist might it was shipped bowman, we insult women body. got through our way of talking our behavior. and through some of our words how can we, so in our daily lives, through good nature, i did our good learning, make a resolution money to get rid of all the things that are insulting to women. because i'm gonna live with we have political activist,
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angelica already been joining us from deli welcome to the program. and jessica, tell us a little yes, a tell us a little more about what a prime minister mowdy said. oh, he's been lucky, but one of the key gave me some is each a was a talking about how to reconfirm ms massaging in india, and that was one of the topics friending yesterday that is in the speech solution. and so i'm what telephone bit more and what's your reaction to his comments? because i know a lot of women in india said it's a bit rich because he's he's made some massages to comments in the past. right. as a vendor. oh, ever i see that there is always or you know, improvement in the future and considering the fact that there is
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a default of me here. we have recently elected the 1st women of the 1st resident to try to move in. and the 2nd woman and the bus driver who interested and this was not in the middle of the party. and that it has been here the process, a very good that you know women representation. however, again, in the very recent myra in the state of a just last week. and interestingly enough of these are a part of the government. and so there was a woman minister gotten it. so there 60000000 women in mara and not a single woman minister. so there is a to me that isn't happening in just that right when we look at it, in fact, just out of the speech in the morning, it was stranding,
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etc. and in the evening we get this news that the read a lot was given a mission in that and read a endless. so there is always this because we have i mean, you mentioned rape and, and that is something the prime minister also mentioned that it was in issue. but other than sort of lecturing men, what actionable stuff has the government rolled out to sort of combat rape in in the minds of people and it's a long one. do it in terms of rain or
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is still not criminalized in india minutes just i'm going on. that is the criminal . i read for example. this is just the culture. so and considering how yes. busy agreed when it comes to women. c, as we don't really see, much being done in front of since 2013 when the laws were amended. yeah, i mean, at one point a few years ago, there was a survey. you probably know about this from thomson reuters foundation that concluded that india is actually the most dangerous country in the world for women to be in. i mean, the results were debated, but regardless, it wasn't a pretty picture. what's your take on the situation? would you agree with that assessment that it's dangerous for women to be in india? b, i would agree, i don't know who else i live in the national capital in new delhi and i did not get
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my house without really bad. so bad in it. so with a situation women in this country and business me having international government a guarantee, you know where there is though, women can mentor out in the night. but considering that in the rural areas, even it's far worse off. there needs to be open circuit efforts from the globe. it cannot be just limited to one low or too low. there is a sensitive issue there needs to be if the school curriculum needs to include gender region, right. they need to have a genuine article that makes it any, got it either online, the brand, right himself should and follow accounts that role and you don't have a harass women, entrepreneurial which he can use it. and jessica re, bon, thank you so much for joining us. that's it for tuesday is sure to check out her
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